Leaders of nations have known for centuries that the business of war is good for their economies. However, one doesn't lower taxes drastically then start a war and run it on borrowed money unless one stands to gain a LOT of wealth from defense contracts. If W hadn't been a complete idiot he would have known this. I truly believe that every word that came out of his mouth was put there by his handlers. He may have said what he did about war and economy but he had absolutely no idea what it meant.

W Bush did everything he was told to do by the people who wanted to destroy America, all of them in his administration. They accomplished it by lying and secret threats against any legislator who got in their way. I believe his re-election was illegal. The voting overseer in Ohio admitted that vote-tampering occurred in that election but before he could give us all the dirty details he was killed in a light plane crash which wasn't the least bit suspicious (yeah, right).

Now W Bush has a book that he hopes will improve his stature. Yet another mistake. What he needs to do is to put the barrel of a gun in his mouth and for the first time in his life, do the right thing. The only way he can stop his reputation from further decline is to cease existing. Then we can at least say he's no longer wasting oxygen, his only positive accomplishment.

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we always knew bush was a fucking idiot

Bush demonstrates the childishly simple minded thinking of the conservative mindset. To them reality is controlled by simple cause and effect, without consideration of anything more complex or hidden from casual view. Take a desired observable external result, associate with an action that happened at the same time, one that they want to do, and the wished action must therefore be the wished cause. This is why under Bush, the military was the favorite solution to any problem. For example, red cars have a reputation of going fast. Fast cars are loud. Our conservative likes red cars that go fast and are loud. Therefore to make a car go fast, painted it red and punch holes in it's muffler.

Conservatives have a simple self-serving answer to every problem, just like their religion is superior to science in explaining how reality works.

There are indeed war profiteers, namely Bush's biggest supporters.

Clearly, this man was just as dumb, and just as much of a mediocrity as the people who inspired him, along with the religious rubes who helped put him over the top and into the White House; “economists” who's slavish devotion to that unspeakable hag, Ayn Rand, with her philosophy of “Greed is Good,” to the overwrought dolt of a “constitutionalist,” Barry Goldwater who never met a Civil Right he liked, antisocial little bigots, racist slob Teabaggers, Rupert Murdoch who hasn't got a political bone in his body and is only out to protect his fellow billionaires…

We lost a whole decade. We may lose two because of this awfulness. In fact, we may have thrown American into an irreversible decline, which is what it's certainly looking like to the rest of the world.

There's a layer of antisocial personality disorder that manifests in everything they do – from their stubborn dishonesty to their narcissism. They can't be reasoned with. You either trick them into a cure or push them aside – and their disorder is malignant.

Maybe a WWII kind of war is good for the economy, but it also murders hundreds of thousands. Wars today, from Korea to Vietnam broke the bank and put us in horrible recessions. Just like Iraq.

nonsense

war destroys

that cannot be good for the economy

govt spending can be good but spending on building is far better than spending on destruction followed by rebuilding

its just propaganda pushed by weapons makers

fuck bush

you are very very wrong about that

govt spending does stimulate

but investment eg schools & roads pays off and is constructive

military crap tax cuts for the rich drug war are worse than money down the toilet they are destructive

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GEORGE BUSH PROVED RIGHT ONCE AGAIN AS PERMANENT WARS REVITALIZE U.S. ECONOMY
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Considering that the massive ‘investment’ into roads across the country was a major contributor to the car culture, the suburbanization of America, and all the associated problems (not to mention the widespread use of eminent domain to build the roads), I would be inclined to argue that they did little good besides lining the pockets of well-connected construction companies and politicians who doled out the public works expenditure.
Schools… I’m almost willing to believe that they may have done some good, though I’m not so sure;)

Republicans are forever stuck in the past. And their ideology is impervious against any real experience that has disproved it since then. The US just keeps looking for a new WWII experience, failing each time because now is not then.

Just as there are no longer 1800's outlaw “injuns” to kill, but the US keeps looking to start a new war on short, brown, poor people to conquer and “save”, while conveniently taking their natural resources in their fantasy of a justified payment.

Sounds like the W that we all know and loathe lol.

Even if it were true, is killing the kind of economy we want? To people who only care about their personal living standard, it would be. Also to Presidents who only care about political points.

To dismiss this horrific revelation of Bush's justification for perpetual war as simply nuts or being dumb is to ignore the warnings of some pretty cogent thinkers from Marx, to Arendt to Orwell, to Chomsky and many others. “We are at war with Eastasia and we have always been at war with Eastasia” is how Orwell described it so well in his 1949 fictional account of dystopian dynamics.

Notice that the USA no longer even debates the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and the necessity of war in Iran. We pass the supplemental appropriations in whatever amounts are requested without dissent. There is no active anti-war movement. Nearly all of us have grown so accustomed that we almost never think about it until we are reminded that we are at war in Afghanistan as if we have always been at war with Afghanistan.

Bush knew what he was doing. And we let him.

Now that is dumb.

So Bush started 2 wars and it still didn't help his economy, which was nothing but harmful tax cuts and bubbles and a loud crash, proving once again that Bush doesn't know what he's talking about.

War profits the greedy families and bankers that peddle death for a living. Not much profit to be made by taxpayers on either side, except a destroyed standard of living, and exponetial debt to said death peddlers.
Repeating a failed conservative meme does not make it true, it just makes the fool saying it look at the more foolish and responsible for the mess created.

Gawd I hate that motherf**ker Bush.

This comment by 'Shrub' is typical of other CHICKEN-HAWKS.
This 'person' (I hesitate to use 'man' – intentional lower-case) is a MURDERING PIECE OF SCUM.
Spawn of shit = shit.
Like father, like spawn.
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Shows absolute commitment to stupidity.

This brilliant idea from a C-grade MBA.

He's still a FUCKING JACKOFF! Weren't his fucking wars what fucked up the economy?

we got something to say about that

http://guttertruth.blogspot.com/

bush should be in prison

fuck obama

duh

that and his tax cuts for the rich

so-called gentlemans cs ie your daddys rich

just as crooked as reagan and incredibly even stupider

repeating a failed meme makes morons believe it

wrong wrong wrong

govt spending not war stimulated the economy

war made it worse

It appears you didn't read my post.

<quote>Maybe a WWII kind of war is good for the economy</quote>

i repeat wrong wrong wrong

War profiteering is pretty much a Bush family business. Grandpa Prescott built his empire on it even though he backed the losing side so it's no wonder W would think it's a good idea. Wind or lose Bush and his buddies would make money.

Sadly the Iraq war is the first successful business venture of W's career and he only had to sell out the future of his country to do it but then I'm sure his brother Bandar has a nice place for him to live when the US goes belly up.

10. Poverty of the State exchequer causes an army
to be maintained by contributions from a distance.
Contributing to maintain an army at a distance causes
the people to be impoverished.

11. On the other hand, the proximity of an army causes
prices to go up; and high prices cause the people's
substance to be drained away.

12. When their substance is drained away, the peasantry
will be afflicted by heavy exactions.

13,14. With this loss of substance and exhaustion
of strength, the homes of the people will be stripped bare,
and three-tenths of their income will be dissipated;
while government expenses for broken chariots, worn-out horses,
breast-plates and helmets, bows and arrows, spears and shields,
protective mantles, draught-oxen and heavy wagons,
will amount to four-tenths of its total revenue.

it's a grave failure of the entire world that this war criminal is not already in the Hague where he belongs.

The fact that bush and his administration isn't being tried for war crimes is proof that justice does not exist in the US today. Only highly selective justice with only an eye toward the serf class.

World War 2 you had huge amounts of deficit spending plus taxes were raised and got larger after world war 2.

You also had huge numbers of people employed by the gov't either working in the military or in the factories/industries supported by gov't money. Thing is in world war 2 the amount of money a stealth bomber would buy would buy a 1000 or so planes same goes for tanks. Today a tank costs as much as a 1000 world war 2 era tanks. So you obviously had much more materials to mine, ship, put into the tanks and the workers building the tanks then a tank today.

He hasnt even been scraped by a shoe!
Maybe his Karma will be cancer….this makes me giddy.
(I know its not very spiritual, I am thinking of justice for all the pain he has caused.)

What Bush really means is that the best way to revitalize his bank account, his cronies, and those he owes his presidency to — is war. He wasn't talking about the average joe citizen nor does he care about the average joe citizen. His only friends are connected to the energy/military industries who profit from war in the Middle East. Also, the US top military warhawks/thinktankers have always advocated war every so often against poor defenseless countries to keep their forces sharp, and to try out their new technological toys on an actual battlefield, so they know how well they will work in a real war against a real foe — such as Russia, China, North Korea etc. Their theory has been — why have the world's best technological weapons and not use them?

Did you ever see the movie Canadian Bacon? If not, get a copy and see how war plays into American political thought, even though its only a comedy.

Haha, yes, the Broken Window Fallacy – even after it was gleefully shown to be complete idiocy by Bastiat almost 150 years ago – still reigns supreme. And JM Keynes was its greatest prophet. War, stimulus spending, what have you. As long as the people 'buy' it, why not 'sell' it?
Ignorance remains the most expensive of all habits.

If only you would understand that government spending can't stimulate the economy, either. Broken Window Fallacy is a fallacy no matter which shape the broken window takes.

You're so close… Read Bastiat on “Broken Window” and “Public Works”.

You sound about a knowledgeable as our last President.

Before WWII we were in a Depression, that was partially alleviated by government spending to stimulate employment and create credit for business. But it wasn't enough, for the same reasons – imbecile Republicans wedded to dogma and a hatred of anything that smacked of socialism watered down every bill to stimulate the economy. They were nothing more than a nuisance in the recovery effort, just like today.

WWII allowed the government to employ virtually everyone in the war effort – in an instant the Depression was over. Taxes were enormous – at 90 plus percent for the rich, but so what?

Today, the defence industry is concentrated into relatively few companies making very specialized equipment. No longer can the jukebox company “Rockola,” or postal machine manufacturers be drafted to make rifles and such. War today does not offer full employment. It hasn't in more than half a century.

Nobody but an idiot like Bush would suggest a WWII type of conflagration would be desirable to help the economy, but WWII did pull us out of the Depression.

exactly

if the world had spent the last century's war-wasted money on better things wed all be rolling in clover

and once again on yet another topic bush is proven to be retarded and sociopathic

another product of religion

spending money on a tank unless actually used for defense is money wasted

the same money could have been invested in education health care green energy pollution control disease eradication or a million other things that would be actually useful

but no you want to waste it

you could pay someone to dig holes and fill them up again

is the economy improved? hell no

just ask murdoch

there is wisdom in that book

Wow! Just imagine what our economy would be like if we weren't fighting 2 1/2 wars!

BUSH: “War's good business, so, YOU give YOUR son”.

This is a perfect look inside Dubya's diseased insect brain.

In fact, ALL the Bushes think like this.

Hmmm, create sickness to build up the hospital imperialism, create the DARE program to make money from drugs, have a family that helped Hitler and never work a day in your life so you can be a dry-drunk narcissistic son of a bitch.

He failed to make any money even on this one.
He was really no good.

What fucked up this economy was free trade that made it sweet for industry to leave the country.

The founding fathers' attitude was exactly the opposite.
They had seen what centuries of war had done to Europe.
They wanted this land to be a place of hope and change.
Oh well.

I Still do not understand why Bush and Cheney are not in prison. That will boggle my mind forever.

Nothing surprising with Bush's statement.
What is surprising is that Obama has followed Bush's policies whether its wars, spying on Americans, backing the banksters, handing the healthcare cartel a windfall profits gift, or letting big oil corporations like BP flaunt worker safety and environmental stewardship. Its like Bush's third term is in full gallop.
Like Bush, Obama is big on commissions when a FUBAR situation comes to public notice.

Like my partner said …”He's not the sharpest tool in the tool box ,but he is a “tool “.” LOL

The Senate approved a $59 billion emergency spending bill Thursday evening for more war, I mean, no shit.

It isn't hard to believe, just Google – “Prescott Bush Germany” – it's all documented, and war profiteering runs in the family!

Wait! While I agree with you that bush should do the right thing I think he should take a few other people with him. But the responsibility of improving his legacy for historical purposes has fallen on the Texas school board who are rewriting history to ensure bush’s legacy is a stellar one. Isn’t it nice when all the stars align to create a republican history that will finally outshine any and all past and future democrats!? Soon bush’s likeness will be etched on Mt. Rushmore, right next to that great republican President Ronnie Reagan!

Comments like these from Bush are a good part of the reason Vincent Bugliosi says he could tryand convict Bush for murder based on his fraudulent Iraq War. The most distressing fact, however, is insane US foreign policy cooked up in the 1950's continues to be upheld by Obama, who turns out to be a more articulate and calmer face for the military industrial oligarchy running the show.

Don't forget be a generally sub-mediocre asshat as a human being, Denny.

Speak for yourself.

Speak for yourself.

Good comment Satan but the propaganda suckers will still blame Bush.

Well, of course….read the Report from Iron Mountain…thats the playbook and unless someone with honesty and integrity comes along and changes it…this is our economy….war and bad paper.

THE BUSH/CHENEY/ROVE/PRINCE/SILVERSTEIN INTERNATIONAL CRIME SYNDICATE

WAS ALSO EXPERT AT CREATING ALTERNATIVE REALITIES TO HIDE THEIR MANY CRIMES AT THE HIGHEST LEVELS OF GOVERNMENT.

DO THESE 2 EVENTS OCCUR SIMULTANEOUSLY-THURSDAY JULY14,2005:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/15/politics/15re…

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=…

Is there any doubt whose presidency has been the most damaging in our history? And all those who voted for the obviously un-qualified ignoramus must share the blame. And learn from what they have wrought.

These comments tell me a lot about the simple minded beliefs of the bloggers. To actually allow an article like this to work themselves up; believing words from the mouth of a dictatorial sycophant(Stone) who is promoting an upcoming film.

Few countries haven't benefited from war. Of course, war is a gamble and if done wrong (from the war-monger's stand point) it is liable to make a mess. Germany stumbled badly in the forties and almost lost the whole country. Up to now, however, America has benefited from war, 300 years of racist expansionist wars have shaped America's geography and natural resource economy. One Civil War and two World Wars have made America an economic powerhouse. But recently Bush stupidly mismanaged the wars of the 00's by refusing to pay for them with taxes and that coupled with the failure of the American military to secure a timely victory In Iraq and Afghanistan may prove an exception to the rule that wars are profitable.

The rule that says wars are profitable, of course, has to be explained. Wars are profitable for real people, that is the rich but wars are bad for unreal people because they are not rich.

Teabaggers' favorite idiot from the village.

Economic stimulus for the HaveMores, his base. The money made in wars has been closed off and no bid contract-ed out. War used to stimulate economies until it was privatized. Not that this is in any way a worthwhile way to make money. It is an historic fact that war stimulates economies. That is a normal economy that is not controlled by a few people selling everything to the war down to embroidered hand towels. And in this case, the same people that took us to war on top of that. America is soooooooooo screwed.

Someone should hand W a newspaper. Oh that's right, the mental midget can't read. Even if someone read it to him he wouldn't understand it. He has no concept of people that aren't rich like his pitifully dumb a$$.

Over the eight years in office Bush was high on drugs and drunk and each World Leader have their own story. Americans allowed Bush to do what ever he wanted including War Crimes. Now Republicans/Tea Party/KKK and many Americans don't like having a black intelligent President who is respected all over the World. Several have called for Obama's impeachment for helping a young lady down the stairs and even for taking his wife out on a Date Night. Republican Christian Family Values are shown by the leaders Senator Ensign, Vitters and Craig. Yes cheating, lying, having prostitutes, having sex with animals and much more.

what can i say? if someone tell us from where precisely they got the information about mass distruction weapons maybe we will rest in peace.

George W. Bush is an ignoramus. Chavez is a socialist. Does this mean we have to choose between the two of them?

War is the most profitable activity in the human experience.Nothing generates more money than the return is not war, what is surprising to me at all.I wonder how these people "can look in the mirror knowing that they have killed so many people to make a new fiscal gain.It makes me sick.

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